The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-09-30
THE AGED FATHER, Their.
: ANNA orFNEn TEsT1FIRs.
Dramatic Soone-Ths Case Argued by
Counssl-Uncsrtaiutys MS to tho Prls.
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RoMsEr. W, VA, Sept. 29.-The AIMS
Oaner murder trial was reoumed thls
morning at nine o'clock with Reuben on;
nor, the prisoners father, on the stand
He Is an old, gray haired man, away ur
In eighty, and has always been considered
one Of the moat honorable and reputable
men In this section. His distress and
anxiety are painful to see as he sits in the
court room day after day, entirely ab.
sorbed in listening TO the evidence ad-
duced for and against his daughter. He
said sha! the revolver with which Ann
killed Brooks had been In bis house for q
long time before the killing. He always
kept 1t loaded. When Ann went aiter the
cows on the morning Of the murder she
only stayed about halt an hour. He, his
wifo and Ann, went and looked at Brooks'
body Just after he was killed. sI+S' =
Mrs. DINERS testimony was mainly cor.
roborative OF her husbands. She said
Ann told her all that had happened as
soon as she got back to the house from the
field where she had killed Brooks. She
says the murder occurred about hali.past
eight or nine IN the morning. 5Bs}
nARRAssEo by BROOKS.
John Sanders, who lives near Mr.. on.
ner'e, says Ann stayed oil night at his
house In February, 1885. Brooks came
alter her to take her home about milni0ht.
and Ann told Mr. Sanders to tell him to
90 to tho devil. Sanders also stated that
he often noticed Brooks watching for Ann
in the field where he was killed when she
came after the COVE. Sometimes the hired
man would come after them, ,then Brooks
would drop down in the grass or 20 off,
Witness spent the night at OGner's last
spring. In the morning Brooks came out
Of others barn. Brooks left when he
saw him (Sanders). fIs!s l<El iiaIIsI J! a
Jacob Hines, who also lives near
Offers, said that Ann Odner passed
night at his house in March, 1886.
Brooks came there about midnight after
her. Witness told him Ann was not
there. Brooks said he knew better. she
WAS there, and be was going to have her
or have blood. Ann came out and said
her feet were sore. Brooks eaid, "If YOU
can't walk you can crawl, and II You can't
crawl I can carry you." Ann went with
him. El5Es ~ ,2ii-7iII7.s = - :
George Hines, Of this vicinity, said Ann
O6ner stayed all nigh. at his house once
IN April, 1886. Brooks came there very
late after her. Ann hid, but Brooks
hunted her up and made her 20 with
him. -tssa; Z - 9 ~ 80.
Peter Bowman testified to seeing Ann
and Brooks together in O1ner'a barn a
month or two before the murder, He
was the last witneea. ~ y =,
TIE GIRLS FATE UNCERTAIN,
The afternoon session was taken 1o in
arguing the case. All the speeches Of the
cou1ael were unusually able efforts and
showed plainly that everything is doing
that can be done to convict, as we'll "a to
save the prisoner. When tho trial began
most people laughed at the idea OF AIMS
being either hung or imprisoned, as it was
thought the State had no cese against her;
but things have taken a new turn and it
is no laughing matter now. Large crowds
filled the Court House to-day, and tho in-
tereat In the procsedings was intense,
Tho prisoner kept her handkerchief to her
lace and cried nearly all the time. To-
morrow morning States Attorney Daley
will cioso the cass and 1t will probably